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Riverside business owner ‘can’t wait’ for CSUSB’s Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards
IE Business Daily
Oct. 29, 2021

 

Cameron Stewart, owner and co-founder of Alcam Medical Orthotic and Prosthetics in Riverside is counting the days to Nov. 10.

That’s the evening the 2021 Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards will be presented, the annual recognition of outstanding business achievement by the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino. Stewart, whose company makes prosthetic limbs and special shoes, learned of his company’s nomination by e-mail.

This will be the 19th year the Center for Entrepreneurship will give out the awards, which are meant to recognize general excellence in the development and management of a company, according to Mike Stull, the center’s director.

Read the whole article at "Business owner hopes to be more than an award nominee." 

RAFFMA’s Día de los Muertos event at CSUSB coming Nov. 6

The Press-Enterprise

Oct. 29, 2021

At the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art at Cal State San Bernardino, the Association of Latino Faculty, Staff and Students is hosting its annual Día de los Muertos event on Saturday, Nov. 6, when ofrendas by student organizations will be showcased.

As part of the event, the campus and community came together to decorate sugar skulls, which will be auctioned on the event day to raise money for student scholarships, said museum marketing coordinator Miranda Canseco.

The celebration is regarded as one of the larger Day of the Dead events in the region, according to Canseco. This year, it will provide a place for many in the area to honor loved ones in-person for the first time since the pandemic began, she said.

“These past two years have been extremely hard for the community in San Bernardino with so much loss of life due to the pandemic,” Canseco said. “We can now see each other and properly celebrate these lives with music, food and people.”

“It’s also an opportunity for people that may have never heard of Día De Los Muertos before to come out and learn about this tradition,” she added.

Read the whole article at "Day of the Dead traditions and tributes return after pandemic disrupted gatherings." 

CSUSB professor quoted about the rise of church vandalism

Desert News

Oct. 30, 2021

In the 2020 fiscal year, which spanned from October 2019 to September 2020, law enforcement agencies across the country reported 8,263 criminal incidents and 11,129 related offenses that were motivated by bias. The total number of hate crimes in the reporting period was higher than it’s been in two decades.

Among the 8,052 “single-bias incidents” tracked by the FBI, 13.3% were motivated by faith-related beliefs. Additionally, just over 3% of the recorded hate crimes took place at houses of worship.

Brian Levin, who directs the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, appeared on the “Axios Today” podcast on Oct. 26 to discuss these trends. The increase in vandalism, arson and other kinds of attacks on churches likely stems from growing distrust of civic institutions, he said.

“The communal institutions which held us together traditionally, like academia, the arms of government, the media, the medical establishment and now religious institutions, are held in low esteem relative to decades prior,” Levin said.

Read the whole article at "Church vandalism is on the rise. Here's how congregations heal."

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